Editorials

MATERIAL scientists have been called upon from time to time to readjust their theories about matter, and now they find that through the recent discovery of radium and the investigation of its properties, they are forced to a further reconstruction of heretofore accepted dogma and premise, and to doubt even the existence of such a thing as matter as heretofore defined. Professor Ramsey's discovery that the elements can be changed one into another is the cause of the latest upheaval, and this, in connection with Professor Lodge's declaration that matter, after all, is only the weapon and vehicle of the mind, has caused the Boston Journal to ask whether Mrs.

WE read in our text-book that "Earth's preparatory school must be improved to the utmost" (Science and Health, p. 486).

Concord, New Hampshire, December 31, 1903. The Rev.

We take great pleasure in publishing the following official communication from the Unitarian Church, which has so kindly opened its doors to our Concord brethren during the construction of the edifice presented to them by our Leader. The fellowship and harmony which for many years have marked the religious activity of Concord is well disclosed in this letter and in the resolution it contains.

To preserve a long course of years still and uniform, amid the uniform darkness of storm and cloud and tempest, requires strength from above, --deep draughts from the fount of divine Love. Preface to "Miscellaneous Writings," by Mary Baker G.

AT the opening of a new year it is customary to review the work of the preceding one, to estimate its gains and losses, and to learn from its experiences how to provide for greater usefulness and better results in the future. While it is true that experience is invaluable as an educator, Christian Science shows the need of such a knowledge of Truth as will render the mistakes of past experience unnecessary.

SOME interesting facts are disclosed by the census of church attendance recently taken in New York City, but nothing more striking was. shown than that the Christian Science denomination stands eighth in the list of twelve which exhibited sufficient numerical strength to escape the general classification "Miscellaneous," or in other words, the Christian Science churches attract to their services a greater number of persons than attend the churches of four of the older denominations.

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NEW YORK, December 6, 1903. —Regarding the rumor that Christian Scientists are planning to establish a "New Jerusalem" on the ground occupied by New Harlem, in New York City, Mrs.

At the threshold of Christmas the heart of the world is opened wide to its children, and all our hands are busied with the things they may do to multiply and sweeten the surprises of the year's dearest, because most unselfish, day. Time was when the "wee bairns" constituted a relatively unimportant factor in the home life, when they were remanded to silence, "waited for their betters," and were but infrequently accorded any special privilege; but a great change has taken place, and now, for the most part, they are not only given a chief seat in the household, but from the day when they are found nestled amid the dainty, perfumed products of a mother's sweet anticipation, to the rounding out of their dependent years, they are remembered in pleasure's every plan, and parental strength, time, and means are unstintedly placed upon the altar of their benefit or satisfaction.